How about 100 banks of 10 channels instead of the other way around (10 banks
of 100 channels each)?

Then you could more easily group items of interest together - for example,
you could have once bank programmed for west county law enforcement, fire
and ABC medics. Another bank could contain freqs for East county law
enforcement, XYZ medic and the same fire company as before. That way, if
you heard of a huge fire out on the west end you could scan the appropriate
bank and be sure you were hearing all the pertinent comms but none of the
traffic stops over on the east side. Having fewer channel per bank would
mean reduced scanning time and fewer channels to lockout to avoid extraneous
stuff. With computers downloading frequencies into radios organizing such
an arrangement would be a trivial task and changes would be quite simple.

that's my .02 worth!

Al


"Steve Silverwood" wrote in message
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In article ,
says...
My ultimate scanner would let me:
1. Allow to transmit on the frequency I am monitoring.

(Please add your wish)

I don=3Ft share your wish for transmit capability, but here goes:

- The ability to set up more than one trunk system, and switch
easily between one or the other -- or better yet, to set up
one =3Fmemory=3F with one trunk system and another =3Fmemory=3F with
another trunk system, etc. and just scan across them like
they were any other preset. (I ask for this because there
are several trunked systems here in Orange County, CA. One
is at Disneyland, another is the Orange County Fire Authority,
and yet another is the county law enforcement system (city
and county agencies). There are others, but those are the
major ones. It sucks to have to program up one scanner for
each trunked system.)

- Mobile and desktop =3Fdocking stations=3F to permit taking a
system from the house and plugging it right into the mobile.
They make docking stations (or =3Fport replicators=3F) for
notebooks, why not for radios?

Given time, I suspect I could come up with a bunch, but those are the
first ones that come to mind.

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-- //Steve//

Steve Silverwood, KB6OJS
Fountain Valley, CA
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